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Elizabeth Bezark Elizabeth Bezark

Fair Trade Learning for Intentional Gap Year Education

Many gap year experiences include some form of community-based learning, or service learning. Whether you work with a community-based organization or institution, or whether you work with gap year students as a program provider or counselor, Fair Trade Learning principles offer an intentional roadmap toward deeper ethics in community partnerships. Learn more about these principles, how the Gap Year Association adapts them for their Standards of Accreditation , and how your organization can apply them too during this event!

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Eric Hartman Eric Hartman

Fair Trade Learning: An Emerging Framework

Fair Trade Learning is global educational partnership exchange that prioritizes reciprocity in relationships through cooperative, cross-cultural participation in learning, service, and civil society efforts. It foregrounds the goals of economic equity, equal partnership, mutual learning, cooperative and positive social change, transparency, and sustainability. Fair Trade Learning explicitly engages the global civil society role of educational exchange in fostering a more just, equitable, and sustainable world.

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